The overnight strikes with Iranian-made drones capped a day in which Russian forces unleashed a major barrage of missiles on critical sites around Ukraine.
Ukraine’s Air Force said Russia launched a “massive” attack targeting the country’s already battered infrastructure, using drones and dozens of cruise missiles.
The first major aerial bombardment in weeks targeted cities across Ukraine, as President Volodymyr Zelensky returned home from a trip across Europe to press for more arms.
Ukraine’s Air Force said Russia launched a “massive” attack targeting the country’s already battered infrastructure, using drones and dozens of cruise missiles.
While intact buildings might look fine, their structural integrity might have been damaged. Some of these buildings will have to be torn down. This process alone could take years.
On his second trip abroad, the Ukrainian president asked the leaders of the European Union to begin talks this year for his country to join. Back home, he faces an intensifying fight on the eastern front.
Thousands of released convicts have been killed, many soon after arriving on the battlefield in Ukraine, Russian rights advocates and Ukrainian officials say.
With more than 7,700 people dead, subfreezing temperatures lent urgency to efforts to find those still missing. Turkey’s president declared a three-month state of emergency in the 10 hardest-hit provinces.